Agush Nyang

My name is Isaac Agumba Ogutu. I was born on 7th January 1996. But that is not my real date of birth. I don’t really know my actual date of birth since my father died just a few months before I was born, and my mother also died a few months after she gave birth to me. But its around 1997, 98. It must be, else how can I be older than my older brother? I lived with some distant, non relatives really, all my life, in Suna West, Migori, Western Kenya. My father was born and lived in Tanzania where his mother, my grandma, was married. He, believe it or not, was so badly mistreated at home and ran away, never to be seen again. That was around the 1980s. My dad then “sought asylum” in Kenya around 1982 where he had ran to, in search for a better life. He met my mother who is from Kano in Kisumu, West Western Kenya. I am the last of 3, my brother is the middle and sister the eldest. Growing up, life was most horrible. The horror stories we heard of orphaned children being mistreated by foster parents or guardians, we lived right through that, and much worse. We were constantly mistreated, beaten and went days without food, sometimes. I constantly ran away from hom